{"id":41360,"date":"2012-07-10T05:06:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T11:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=41360"},"modified":"2012-07-10T05:06:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T11:06:43","slug":"sanchez-defeats-velasquez-in-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/07\/sanchez-defeats-velasquez-in-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchez defeats Velasquez in Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41361\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41361\" title=\"Sanchez, Clemente\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sanchez-Clemente.jpg\" alt=\"Clemente Sanchez\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clemente Sanchez<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Clemente_Sanchez\" target=\"_blank\">Clemente Sanchez<\/a> has defeated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxineforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maxine Velasquez<\/a> in a tight Democratic primary race to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SULIB\" target=\"_blank\">David Ulibarri<\/a> in the N.M. Senate, Capitol Report New Mexico is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolreportnewmexico.com\/?p=10296\" target=\"_blank\">the article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe primary in Senate District 30 was a crazy, back and forth affair on a number of levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst because at the end of the night of the June 5 primary,\u00a0Velasquez actually led Sanchez by 3 votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, a count of provisional ballots put Sanchez in front by 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA recount was mandated due to the slim margin, with Valencia, Socorro and\u00a0McKinley counties joining Cibola in going over the ballots one more time. Sanchez told us that in the final count, he ended up widening the final margin over Velasquez to 11\u00a0votes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sanchez will take on Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/vickie4nmsenate.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Vickie Perea<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clemente Sanchez has defeated Maxine Velasquez in a tight Democratic primary race to replace David Ulibarri in the N.M. Senate, Capitol Report New Mexico is reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,107],"class_list":["post-41360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}